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title: When the preliminary arrangements are concluded, a bridal procession… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: When the preliminary arrangements are concluded, a bridal procession is formed at the young woman’s kraal, to escort her to her future home. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 29

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When the preliminary arrangements are concluded, a bridal procession is formed at the young woman’s kraal, to escort her to her future home.

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**What happens:** conclude, form, escort · **To what, where:** preliminary arrangements, bridal procession, kraal, procession, future home

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:28:29
# text = When the preliminary arrangements are concluded, a bridal procession is formed at the young woman’s kraal, to escort her to her future home.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	preliminary	preliminary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	escort	escort	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present · passive |  | the preliminary arrangements |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present · passive |  | a bridal procession |  | the young woman's kraal |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **escort** | to-infinitive |  | procession |  | procession's future home |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to home=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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